Two people were taken to the hospital Monday after suffering inhalation burns during a fire at a Tempe home that had "hoarder conditions" inside, fire officials said.

Crews responded around 2:30 p.m. to the fire in the 500 block of West 17th Place, northwest of Broadway Road and Mill Avenue, the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department said.

The home had bars on the windows and "hoarder conditions" inside, Tempe Assistant Fire Chief Paul Nies said. Conditions "deteriorated fairly rapidly," prompting crews to work defensively from the outside of the home, Nies said.

Firefighters also rescued several family pets from inside the home.

It wasn't immediately clear what sparked the fire. No information was immediately available on the conditions of the two hospitalized people.